#UnusualDeaths
According to the CDC, falling out of bed kills 450 Americans a year and injured another 1.8 million. Around 20,000 Brits a year end up in the hospital after falling out of bed compared t0 1600 who fall of ladders and 1200 who fall out of trees. pic.twitter.com/KEJDdFeSPq— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) September 2, 2023
#UnusualDeaths
Although your chances of being killed by a falling coconut are 250 000 000/1, a handful of people end up going out this way every year (a 2014 report puts that number at 150!). A 3lb coconut falling from a 100 foot tree would hit you with a force of 4,181… pic.twitter.com/JIQ81nxob9— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) September 6, 2023
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Jellyfish kill more people than sharks, over 100 people a year, although the number may be much higher. Most lives were claimed by the winged box jellyfish. With its translucent body and 10 foot tentacles, it is one of the most venomous animals on the planet. pic.twitter.com/7OhgoTLLsO— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) September 4, 2023
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Vending machines kill an average of 13 people a year, usually as a result of cheapskates rocking the heavy machines back and forth in an attempt to dislodge free candy bars. Unsurprisingly, most of the victims were men. pic.twitter.com/6LOQp2oGtR— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) September 5, 2023
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Poorly written prescriptions and illegible doctors' notes result in 7000 deaths and 1.5 million injuries a year. pic.twitter.com/KRCb2rfEQM— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) September 7, 2023
Today’s Yes/No…
The Wacky Calzony? Yes/Nohttps://t.co/lQvpGm2B59
— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) September 8, 2023
Perhaps it’s because I just watched the movie “Constantine” last night, but why does that calzone remind me of a crucifix? “For a limited time! Free stigmata with every side order of garlic fingers!”
I’m loving the “news of the weird”. Just bizarre!
Speaking of bizarre, do you like true crime stories? This is ultra bizarre: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/girl-charged-moms-murder-may-have-been-forced-fake-disability-n376971 https://people.com/crime/gypsy-rose-blanchard-munchausen-mom-murder/
I saw a movie on this story. If it weren’t an actual news story, I wouldn’t have believed it could happen. Not sure I could convict the girl but what kind of life can she have now?
Weird
I’m totally shocked about the 7,000 deaths caused by prescriptions with bad handwriting. First of all — isn’t it also the pharmacist’s job to call the doctor if they can’t read said prescription? Secondly, you know that is just way too low and there are likely so many more that died and they wrote it off to other things. Like “whoops, poor Sally slipped in the shower.” When it probably was, “Oops Sally passed out because she took 10x the dosage of [insert name of medication] because it was mislabeled.”
And jelly fish? I’ve gotten very close to accidentally stepping on them. When I was down in Galveston (the beach), there were some ugly looking ones where I wasn’t really sure what it was at first. Gulf Coast jellyfish look very different from Long Island, New York jellyfish. I’ll upload it to your Twitter post for you to see.